Renaissance
The Italian Woman: A Catherine DeMedici Novel
Set in 16th-century France, The Italian Woman depicts the transformation of Catherine DeMedici from a scorned and humiliated wife to…
Clash of Empires: The Red Sea
This is a sequel to Clash of Empires: The Great Siege, which I have not read and the HNR did…
The Malice of Fortune
Editors' choice
In the midst of an upsurge in interest in the Borgias, Ennis’s new historical thriller is, at the very least,…
Passion Blue
Giulia, the heroine of this young adult novel about the Renaissance, is the bastard daughter of a nobleman whose death…
God Carlos
God Carlos is the story of a 16th-century Spanish seaman who sails to Jamaica. He participates in the common practice…
The Bloodletter’s Daughter: A Novel of Old Bohemia
Born to King Rudolf’s mistress, young Giuglio believes his mother a whore. If he had been born to the queen,…
Cervantes Street
This novel takes the biography of the creator of Don Quixote as the starting point for a tale of love…
Leonardo and the Last Supper
This time out, Ross King, novelist and bestselling author of biographical nonfiction focusing primarily on the Italian Renaissance (Brunelleschi’s Dome,…
The Venetian Contract
The novel begins in Constantinople and focuses on the character of Feyra. She is (of course) beautiful, intelligent, and has…
Stravaganza: City of Swords
This time-slip historical fantasy, the sixth in the Stravaganza series, moves between 21st-century London and 16th-century Italy, a country of…
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